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Were dinosaurs "big" before Jurrasic Park (1993)?

  • 25-04-2014 06:00PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭


    Born in 91, I was obsessed with dinosaurs since forever, reading nature encyclopedia and been fascinated as a kid about it. I think it might have been the very first thing I ever took a large notice of.

    It seems an almost universal thing among engineers and science students that are 20 something (especially lads) who grew up around the time of the movie. It seemed in the 90's people couldn't get enough of dinos in just about everything. It was nuts. Very much like Star Wars for that generation.

    Did the interest exist before Jurassic Park, at least in the mainstream?





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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Huge!

    The T Rex was as big as a house.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Yes I hear they were very big a few million years ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Argentinosaurus was always big.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,941 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    Ah they were always great the dinosaurs. They were the showbands of their time


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Adamantium wrote: »
    Did the interest exist before Jurrasic Park, at least in the mainstream?

    Very much so.

    Taught in schools, bendy toys, songs and features in children's TV programmes, Godzilla, "One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing", King Kong cameos, etc.

    Jurassic Park tapped into it rather than inventing it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Remember the Dinosaurs magazine that came with 3D glasses for the 3D pictures and every week came with skeleton pieces so you could build a glow-in-the-dark T-Rex?


  • Site Banned Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭MilanPan!c


    To answer the OPs question, yes.

    Dinosaurs have always been a hugely popular part of natural history museums and dinosaurs in movies have been around since the beginning of stop motion animation.

    JP was a huge moment for their modern popularity, but not the beginning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I had a lot of Dino stuff around that time, I'd say from playschool till about senior infants, then we all got into Power Rangers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,511 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    Yes dinosaurs were big for a long while before Jurassic parks , you had various cartoons, movies, lots of toys.

    And this accurate depiction of dinosaurs began broadcasting in 1991 I think


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    I just remembered "A land before Time" and its several sequels


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Yabba Dabba Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    why do you think they made a massive motion picture on dinosaurs in the first place. People like old crap :p

    Watched it again recently, great show. Made me feel prehistoric though :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    There used to be a weekly magazine about dinosaurs that I got as a kid and it was hugely popular. I'm pretty sure that was before Jurassic Park


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Starscream25


    Can anyone identify this cartoon for me, the link up there doesn't seem to work if that was the one I'm on about.
    Basically some lads from a different world got shot down in their spaceship and the planet they crashed on had dinosaurs, they attached armor and guns and what not to the body of the dinosaurs to defend themselves from the lads who shot them down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,924 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Adamantium wrote: »
    I just remembered "A land before Time" and its several sequels

    I loved that film growing up.

    A few years back I found out that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas watched it, were freaked that a lot of the mild horror/violence would scare kids so cut 10-15 minutes of footage.

    Which is still missing to this day :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Yabba Dabba Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11


    My grandad would sit and watch this with me on Sundays and loved it as much as I did. I think it was because he didn't have a TV when he was younger Thanks :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Starscream25


    There used to be a weekly magazine about dinosaurs that I got as a kid and it was hugely popular. I'm pretty sure that was before Jurassic Park

    I used to get that, and every week there was a piece of glow in the dark t rex skeleton.they were the days


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,750 ✭✭✭recyclops


    Can anyone identify this cartoon for me, the link up there doesn't seem to work if that was the one I'm on about.
    Basically some lads from a different world got shot down in their spaceship and the planet they crashed on had dinosaurs, they attached armor and guns and what not to the body of the dinosaurs to defend themselves from the lads who shot them down.

    that was dino riders and if ever something needed to be made into a movie this is it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Hollywood doesn't make the trend, they follow. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Starscream25


    recyclops wrote: »
    that was dino riders and if ever something needed to be made into a movie this is it

    Cheers man, nostalgia overload, here's the link if anyone wants a look
    http://youtu.be/tpuhLkh358Y


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    There used to be a weekly magazine about dinosaurs that I got as a kid and it was hugely popular. I'm pretty sure that was before Jurassic Park

    That magazine caused me to break my arm!

    I've always loved dinosaurs, they're like science fiction only real! (except for the whole being extinct thing)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    From about 1970 onwards they started to get smaller for some reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I used to get that, and every week there was a piece of glow in the dark t rex skeleton.they were the days

    haha.. yeah. I remember taking a few magazines into school one day and getting in trouble for asking the teacher why there were no dinosaurs in the bible :pac:

    Can you remember what the magazines were called or who published them? They're probably still at home in my mams attic.. must go looking for them someday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    To be honest, when I was a kid my parents thought dinosaurs were fictional, like for many many years - even when I was a young adult. :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    haha.. yeah. I remember taking a few magazines into school one day and getting in trouble for asking the teacher why there were no dinosaurs in the bible :pac:

    Can you remember what the magazines were called or who published them? They're probably still at home in my mams attic.. must go looking for them someday

    The magazine was called Dinosaurs!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    haha.. yeah. I remember taking a few magazines into school one day and getting in trouble for asking the teacher why there were no dinosaurs in the bible :pac:

    Can you remember what the magazines were called or who published them? They're probably still at home in my mams attic.. must go looking for them someday




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Starscream25


    haha.. yeah. I remember taking a few magazines into school one day and getting in trouble for asking the teacher why there were no dinosaurs in the bible :pac:

    Can you remember what the magazines were called or who published them? They're probably still at home in my mams attic.. must go looking for them somedayimage.jpg

    They were a crowd called Orbis, I just took a photo of them there don't know if my link will work, they were well at the back of my cupboard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    The magazine was called Dinosaurs!

    ffs :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    To be honest, when I was a kid my parents thought dinosaurs were fictional, like for many many years - even when I was a young adult. :cool:


    It's probably best not to tell that story in real life. :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    ffs :o

    Ha I know, it's always the obvious things, huh!

    Yeah I had them too, they were great!


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